'How I Met Your Mother' comes to an end

by niagarau

Sun, Apr 6th 2014 04:00 pm

Review
by Nicco Gentile

The CBS popular romantic comedy "How I Met Your
Mother" came to end this past Monday. The program aired its final episode, "Last Forever," with 12.9 million
viewers. Since 2005, "How I Met Your Mother" has been a lock on CBS's
programming. Over the years, the show earned 28 Emmy nominations (winning
nine of them).

The show consists of a group of friends that
meet regularly at a popular New York City pub. Meanwhile, the main character Ted Mosby
explains his ongoing search for the "Mother." Josh Radnor, who plays as Ted, acts alongside Neil Patrick Harris, Alyson Hannigan,
Jason Segel and Cobie Smulders.

(Spoiler alert)

The hour-long season finale proved to many avid
watchers a huge disappointment. The Mother dies. Yes,
unfortunately that's not the way it was expected to end. The finale left many
viewers in discontent similar to the finale of the once popular mafia show,
"The Sopranos."

Many Niagara students tuned in to watch the
shows last episode. Seton Hall's CA Isaac De Los Santos had a few
choice words after watching the finale.

"The hour-long episode was an emotional roller
coaster with too many plot twists that focused too much on Robin when in
reality everyone expected it to focus on Ted and the Mother. I will say that
all the gimmicks they had were funny and entertaining, but in regards to the
ending, it seemed to be one big gimmick. They were heavily invested in Tracy (the Mother), yet they kill her off and send Ted back to Robin.

"The entire season was
about Barney and Robin's marriage, yet that was all destroyed
in less than 5 minutes. I believe the finale was a big slap in the face after
watching the show from the beginning. It was not legendary at all."

The creators of "How I Met Your Mother," Craig
Thomas and Carter Bays, are currently working on a spinoff show titled "How I
Met Your Dad." CBS has already ordered a pilot episode to air this fall. The final episode may be seen online, http://www.cbs.com/shows/how_i_met_your_mother/.